Improvement in addressing-machines



E DELANO. I Addressing Machine PatentedOct. 23, 1877..

ATTORNEYS.

v N. PETERS, PHQTO-UTHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OrrIoE.

, EZEKIEL DELANO, OF GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADDRESSING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,340, dated October23, 1877; application filed September 10, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZEKIEL DELANO, of Greenwich, county of Fairfield,and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and ImprovedAddressing-Machine, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents atop view, and Fi g. 2a vertical longitudnal section on line a: as, Fig. 1, of my improvedaddressing-machine and Fig. 3 is a front view of'the same, showing thecuttingshears and paper holding and moving pad.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to machines for addressing papers and packages inrapid and reliable manner without the sticking of the labelstrip so asto clog the machine, and with the additional facility of moving theaddressed papers or wrappers by means of the machine.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drr wing,and then pointed out in the claims. 7

Referring to the drawing, A represents the frame of myaddressing-machine, which is provided at the rear part with a reel orroller for winding up the label-strip in the customary manner in thesemachines. At the middle part of the frame A is the paste-fountain B,from which the endless pasting-belt G takes up its supply of paste bymeans of a distributingbrush, D, and an equalizing-roller, D. Theendless belt 0 is stretched over an upper and lower feed-roller, thelower roller imparting, by an outer pulley turned by the thumb of theoperator, motion to the belt. A heavy roller, D of lead or othermaterial, is placed at the inner rear part of the belt 0, to keep thesame tightly stretched over the equalizingroller and feed-rollers. Thelabel-strip is conducted over the endless paste-ca'rryin g belt 0, andretained thereon by a grooved roller, D above the upper, and apressure-roller, D above the lower, feed-roller, the label-strip passingthen over curved conductors E of wire or other material, from thepasting-belt G to the stationary cutting-shear F at the front end offrame A. The movable shear F is pivoted to the stationary cutter F, and,like the same, extended back of the pivot, being acted upon, in thecustomary manner, by aspiral' spring, a, attached to a fixed'arm, b, offrame A, so as to open for cutting off a piece from the label-stripcontaining the printed address. The rear part of the movable cutter F isprovided with a plate, F being faced with rubber or other material, soas to form a kind of pad that not only presses up on the paper orwrapper to which the addressstrip is to be pasted, so as to hold thesame firmly simultaneously with the cutting off of the same from thelabel-strip by the shears, but which also achnits the imparting of aside motion to the paper or wrapper at the same time with the cutting ofthe strips and pasting them on the paper or wrapper. The moving of thepaper or wrapper by means of the pad of the addressing-machine saves theremoving of the paper or wrapper by the hand, and admits the quickercutting and pasting on of the address-strips on the papers or wrappersthan with the present addressing-machines.

For the purpose of rendering the machine available for thick as well asthin label-strips without the annoyance caused by the soaking of thepaper, and the consequent sticking of the knives and clogging of thesame, an adjustable guide, G, is arranged laterally above the upper endof the feed-belt, and made to slide in sleeves d, being adjusted byaset-screw, or simply by friction in the sleeves to different height.When the label-strip is of heavy paper it is passed in between the uppercontact or pressure roller D and the belt, so as to be in contact withthe belt over its entire length, and take up the required quantity ofpaste from the same. When the label-strip is of medium thick paper it ispassed over the guide G, which has been raised about an inch above thebelt, so that the label-strip forms contact with the belt for aboutone-half the length of the latter, more or less; but when very thinpaper is used for the same the guide is raised to its full height, andthe label strip only brought in contact with the belt near the lowerpressure-roller 1)", taking up just a sufficient quantity of paste to beeasily cut by the shears, and then pasted in reliable manner to thepaper or wrapper.

The conductors bridge over the space between the lower feed-roller ofthe pasting-belt and the shears, facilitating the cutting off of theaddress-strips in regular manner.

r 1 2 V The addressing-machine may beworked. by 1 Z the additien of thepad,e011duct0rs,:audguide' V in quicker and more reliable manner with er labekstrip of thick or thin paper; the pasting of the same beingregulated ae described, and V V e the papers 01 Wrappers moved aeifleafter eut fining and pasting of the address-strips thereon at a,considerable saving of; time: and labor; r 7 Having thus fullyfleseribedmyinvention, I

1 claim: as new andrdesire to secure 1 by Letters Patent:

' r I The: cembination, with the movable cutter 1 V :inam addressin gneehinq of the rubber-faced plate Fithat serw' es fioigive ei sidemotiou to;

V 'the paper: as Welles subsen'e the purpose ofa 1 l pressure-pat asset'forth; I V 5 r 2. In an addressing-machine,the combiner, 2

tion, with the paste carrying and supplying endless belt, ofpressure-rollers arranged above I 1 l V Y r the upper and lowerfeed-rollers,substantially as: and: for the purpose 'speoifiedv e i V rr belt, of an adjustable guide-piece; arranged nee-r the upper end ofthe belt, substantially F i V Z i V 1 l i V Y described.

4. In an addifees'ing-meelfine, the combine-T 'tien, \vith the pastecarrying and supplying; I

belt mldzwith the: lower pressure roller, of an 7 j ble guide-piece nearupper end of belt, ms:

to facilitate pasting and cutting oflabeI-stmips Offllill paper,substentiallyas described; *EZEKIELDELANO. 5'? e

